wrestling with God

in #steemchurch6 years ago

Jacob wrestled with God one night as he was traveling back to meet his dad Isaac. He had deceived his sibling Esau before he exited home. Jacob knew the choice to return would either bring about life (if Esau acknowledged him), or death (if Esau was as yet insulted). To compound the situation, he heard that Esau, now a military general, was accompanying 400 equipped men to meet him. Jacob was in trouble.


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The Bible records an occasion that has confounded researchers for quite a long time. Jacob met a Man that night and wrestled with Him until morning. That Man ended up being God Almighty! Jacob physically wrestled with God, and would not release Him. The Man at last said to him "thy name will be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a sovereign hast thou control with God and with men, and hast won" (Gen. 32:28 KJV).

Jacob won with God the prior night he met Esau. He also won when he met Esau. Would you be able to see the example? If you need to win in life's conditions, you should first win profoundly with God. You may think, "But God has never appeared to me as a Man so that I can also grapple with Him and win!".

Today, we don't grapple with God physically, but in prayer. The scripture portrays Epaphras as "continually working intensely" in prayer. You have to wrestle in prayer for your service, your family, and your locale, if you need to win in physical conditions.

What is the significance of the words "taken off alone" as for wrestling in prayer? Pronounce to yourself over and over that "I am working intensely in prayer for my life, and the lives of people around me".

Have you at any point laid alert throughout the night on the grounds that a circumstance had taken you prisoner? Instead of gazing at your roof, do what Jacob did. Wrestle in prayer!

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